(September 6, 2014 at 1:37 am)GalacticBusDriver Wrote:(September 5, 2014 at 8:29 pm)Chuck Wrote: Except brown recluse spiders are really hard to provoke, have really short fangs, and you have to press one up against your skin to elicit a bite. Even then, majority of the bites have so little effect that they go unnoticed, and a small percentage cause serious problems.
Great white, on the other hand, need no provocation, have really long teeth, will hunt you down, and will usually bleed you out.
Been bitten by a member of the recluse family. The afflicted area took three years to fully heal and five before all the scarring faded. I was lucky since it bit me right next to my spine, the damage could have been far worse and lifelong permanent.
Never even seen a shark that wasn't in a tank or in a TV show/movie.
See? Exactly. I don't want to deal with years of healing and scars on my skin and everything. The recluse is the only spider I will kill on site.
Thankfully right now I live on a safe island mass. The only thing that would actually attack and harm you here is the badger...
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